18 Dec
2002
18 Dec
'02
1:02 p.m.
-----Original Message-----
From: cctech-admin(a)classiccmp.org [mailto:cctech-admin@classiccmp.org]On
Behalf Of Tony Duell
Sent: 17 December 2002 01:22
To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org
Subject: Re: The ACE is recovering :-)
AFAIK most of the complete ACEs were sold by Boldfield. They had a few
'special deals' to students where they threw in a lot of games tapes, etc
(how do you think I ended up with the games ;-)).
Good stuff - do you mind if I add this to the Ace page in the museum?
A few years ago I met the chap who'd bought the
rights to the ACE
firmware. I obviously can't speak for him, but he struck me as a true
hacker (I met him at a talk I was giving on the PDP11/45 -- non-hackers
don't normally come to talks about processor microcode...). I would
therefore be suprised if he had any objections to reasonable hackish use
of the firmware (such as keeping backups, etc).
Smart - I like people like that :)
cheers
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adrian/witchy
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